Six Easy Pbugle Tunes

Six Easy pBugle Tunes

The easiest way to start your trumpet journey

• 6 easy pieces to play along to • Different genres • Chance to improvise • Links to backing and demo tracks • Music that every pBugle note fits with

Six Easy pBugle Tunes pBugle

The easiest way to start your trumpet journey Contents

Using this Book 5

1. Easy Summer Afternoon 6

2. Dancy 7

3. Take it Easy 8

4. Funky 9

5. pBugler’s Blues 10

6. pBugle Samba 12

7. Glossary 16

4 Learn to play the pBugle Using this Book

Introduction

Hello and welcome to this small collection of tracks for pBugle players to use to build and practice their skills.

As you will notice this book is not filled with traditional music notation, instead we are giving beginner players the chance to listen and copy as well as be creative and make up their own music.

Often there are no “right or wrong” notes, especially in the first few pieces, and the learner can be creative whilst aiming for well established targets of good quality sound and playing in a steady pulse.

This book is intended as an extension of our “Learn to Play: pBugle” book but can be used by any teacher, parent or learner to extend music making skills.

The fact that there are limited pitches available on the pBugle, especially at the beginning of learning, helps us to be more exploratory, open and creative.

‘The enemy of art is the absence of limitation’...Orson Welles

We hope you enjoy the freedom to make music. How to use the book

Every tune, except the gentle “Easy Summer Afternoon”, has supporting video featuring professional trumpet player and teacher; Anthony Thompson. There are chances to listen to and copy Anthony and also tunes where he gives examples.

When developing your pBugle skills it is always a good idea to try and listen, sing, buzz (on the mouthpiece) and then play the notes. To remind us you will see this set of icons dotted around the book, they mean listen, sing, buzz (like a bee!) and play!

The pieces become progressively more challenging and the last two numbers “pBugle Blues” and “pBugle samba” can be used by many players or for interesting multi-tracking games, technology allowing!

If you have printed this book then use your smart phone to scan the QR codes to take you to the backing tracks and videos. If you have downloaded this as a PDF you should be able to simply click on each QR code and be transported to the appropriate file.

We have included traditional, musical notation for “pBugle Samba” to help any teachers or experienced players but the best way to learn this piece, like all the rest in the book, is by listening and copying.

Please enjoy, be creative and explore the music...

But most of all have fun!

Learn to play the pBugle 5 1. Easy Summer Afternoon

This track is a great place to have a cool, laid back pBugle session.

You can use it to practice:

Long notes: Try getting louder (crescendo) and quieter (diminuendo).

Cool funky backing patterns: Whether busy stabs or long notes that grow in volume (dynamics) you can choose and use your imagination.

Changing pitch: (how high or low your notes are): This music will work with any pitch you can play on the pBugle.

You need to know the structure of this piece before you can use it...

Bars: In music time is measured in beats and beats are organised into bars, in this tune there are 4 beats in each bar. Before you start playing see if you can clap along to the beats. When you do play remember to use:

1, 2, 3, breathe PLAY!

Sections: this piece is divided into three sections:

Intro, Verse and Outro

Intro is an introduction and in this piece it lasts eight bars. It starts with the vibraphone playing alone and is joined by the drums.

The Verse is the main body of the tune and is played mainly on the electric piano accompanied by the drums and bass. This section lasts 16 bars. This is the main section for you to join in with.

Outro is word that has recently begun to be used in popular music, it means the opposite of the Intro-a small section to take us out of the music and create an ending. In this piece it lasts for two bars and then fades away.

Listen to the track using the link below, you can hear the sections. Think about what you might play on the pBugle. Maybe you can copy some of the rhythm patterns that the piano is playing on or two notes?

Backing track

6 Learn to play the pBugle 2. Dancy

This track is upbeat and has loads of energy, it’s dancy!!.

You can use it to practice:

Long notes: Try getting louder (crescendo) and quieter (diminuendo).

Stabby, short notes that add punctuation to the music: Whether busy stabs or long notes that grow in dynamics (crescendo) you can choose and use your imagination.

Changing pitch: (how high or low your notes are): This music will work with any pitch you can play on the pBugle.

This piece hasn’t got a complicated structure...it just repeats and repeats!!

Hip-Hop usually has several elements to it DJ, MC and Dance

This track just uses the DJ element but as well as some cool pBugle paying you could add some MC to this by making up some lyrics or a rap to fit the beats and...how about a dance!

Listen to the track using the link below, you can hear the beats?

There is also a video of Anthony Thompson playing along with this track.

Anthony plays some notes and asks you to listen and copy! Backing track

Learn to play the pBugle 7 3. Take it Easy

This track is another cool, laid back pBugle session.

You can use it to practice:

Long notes: Try getting louder (crescendo) and quieter (diminuendo).

Cool funky backing patterns: Whether busy stabs or long notes that grow in volume (dynamics) you can choose and use your imagination.

Changing pitch: (how high or low your notes are): This music will work low or high notes (C, low or high) and medium notes (G).

Structure: You need to know the structure of this piece before you can use it.

Sections: this piece is divided into three sections:

Intro, Verse and fade away.

This intro is eight bars once the piano starts.. The first sounds you hear are a little on the congas before the electric piano starts the intro for real. Start counting your intro bars when the piano starts

1, 2, 3, 4, | 2, 2, 3, 4, | 3, 2, 3, 4, | etc...until 8, 2, 3, breathe..play!

If you watch carefully on the video with Anthony you’ll see him silently say 4, 2, 3, 4...5... before he plays on the 9th bar!).

The Verse is the main body of the tune and is played mainly on the electric piano accompanied by the drums and bass. This section lasts 16 bars.

First watch the video with Anthony, join in maybe?

Now play along to the backing track and make it your own!

Backing Anthony track playing

8 Learn to play the pBugle 4. Funky

This track is a great place to have a cool, laid back pBugle session.

You can use it to practice:

Long notes: Try getting louder (crescendo) and quieter (diminuendo).

Cool funky backing patterns: Whether busy stabs or long notes that grow in volume (dynamics) you can choose and use your imagination.

Changing pitch: (how high or low your notes are): This music will work with any pitch you can play on the pBugle. You need to know the structure of this piece before you can use it...

Bars: In music time is measured in beats and beats are organised into bars, in this tune there are 4 beats in each bar. Sections: this piece is divided into three sections:

Intro, Verse and Outro

Intro is an introduction and in this piece it lasts eight bars. It starts with the vibraphone playing alone and is joined by the drums. The Verse is the main body of the tune and is played mainly on the electric piano accompanied by the drums and bass. This section lasts 16 bars. Outro is word that has recently begun to be used in popular music, it means the opposite of the Intro a small section to take us out of the music and create an ending. In this piece it lasts for two bars and then fades away.

Listen to the track using the link below, you can hear the beats?

There is also a video of Anthony Thompson playing along with this track.

Anthony plays some notes and asks you to listen and copy!

Backing Anthony track playing

Learn to play the pBugle 9 5. pBugler’s Blues

This track is all about “The Blues”.

You can use it to practice:

Long notes: Try getting louder (crescendo) and quieter (diminuendo).

Composing a melody: This blues needs a “head”. This is the jazz term for a melody. Often in jazz and blues the head will be played and then the musicians will create improvisations based on the head. The head will be repeated either as a backing or a moment that brings the players all back together again, a kind of jazzy, musical meeting place.

Improvising: This is simply where musicians make up the music as they go along. The music they make up is in reaction to and needs to fit in with the piece at the time. On pBugle this is really made simple as this blues is designed to allow any pBugle note to fit in nicely...so no “wrong” notes!

What is the difference between Composing and improvising? A simple way of explaining the difference between composing and improvising might be to say that: When you have composed a piece of melody or a backing lick you are anticipating playing exactly the same thing again or that another musician is going to learn it, either by ear or by reading some form of notation, and play it again. In improvisation the music you create is intended to be heard once, in that moment and next time it is likely to be completely different.

We have created a “pBugle Blues” for you to play with.

The backing track just has the rhythm section so you can make up a head, improvise, make up backings any way you like.

There are also two videos from Anthony:

One is Anthony making up a head or tune that lasts 12 bars and begins after the intro section. You can learn his head to use with the backing track or practice making up little backing licks or riffs that fit into the gaps Anthony leaves in the music.

The other is Anthony making up an improvisation that lasts for 24 bars. He listens to the intro and begins his improvisation simply, becoming more complicated as the last 12 bars goes on. You can copy him or pick small parts of his improvisation to use for yourself or to make backing licks!

If you, a friend or parent can record on a phone or other device you could try to multi track yourself playing all the parts of this blues: head, improvisation and backings!

Good luck! why not send us a recording to [email protected]?

10 Learn to play the pBugle This track is all about “The Blues”.

You can use it to practice:

Long notes: Try getting louder (crescendo) and quieter (diminuendo).

Bluesy backing patterns: Whether busy stabs or long notes that grow in volume (dynamics) you can choose and use your imagination to fill in the spaces that the melody or the improvisations leave in the music. Backing track Anthony plays Anthony Composing a melody: “pBugle Blues” “the head” improvises This blues needs a “head”. This is the jazz term for a melody. Often in jazz and blues the head will be played and then the musicians will create improvisations based on the head. The head will be repeated either as a backing or a moment that brings the players all back together again, a kind of jazzy, musical meeting place.

Improvising: Structure This is simply where musicians make up the music as they go along. The music they make up is in reaction to and needs to fit in with the piece at the time. On pBugle this is really made simple as this blues is designed to Our simple structure for a blues looks like this: allow any pBugle note to fit in nicely...so no “wrong” notes! Firstly the intro: in our case 8 bars of just electric piano. Then the head, 12 bars long, probably all the musicians play this together. What is the difference between Composing and improvising? Now some improvising for 12 bars A simple way of explaining the difference between composing and improvising might be to say that: The solo continues with the rest of the players adding little backing riffs or licks When you have composed a piece of melody or a backing lick you are anticipating playing exactly the They all play the head again together (the solo might continue over this). same thing again or that another musician is going to learn it, either by ear or by reading some form of There might be an outro at the end, just a simply fade in this case. notation, and play it again. In improvisation the music you create is intended to be heard once, in that moment and next time it is likely to be completely different. Intro (8 bars) We have created a “pBugle Blues” for you to play with.

The backing track just has the rhythm section so you can make up a head, improvise, make up backings any way you like. Head (12 bars) There are also two videos from Anthony:

One is Anthony making up a head or tune that lasts 12 bars and begins after the intro section. Improvise (12 bars) You can learn his head to use with the backing track or practice making up little backing licks or riffs that fit into the gaps Anthony leaves in the music.

The other is Anthony making up an improvisation that lasts for 24 bars. He listens to the intro and begins his Improvise plus backings (12 bars) improvisation simply, becoming more complicated as the last 12 bars goes on. You can copy him or pick small parts of his improvisation to use for yourself or to make backing licks!

If you, a friend or parent can record on a phone or other device you could try to multi track yourself playing Head (12 bars) all the parts of this blues: head, improvisation and backings!

Good luck! why not send us a recording to [email protected]? Outro (fade away)

Learn to play the pBugle 11 6. pBugle Samba

Samba is a Brazilian music style of infectious rhythm and complex origins. It developed as urban music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the favelas, or slums, of Rio de Janeiro. Its roots, however, trace back hundreds of years to customs and traditions brought to Brazil by African slaves.

Usually the leader uses a samba whistle or apito to control the band. Sections of call and response are mixed in with energetic and hypnotic passages of complicated, layered ensemble playing.

Samba is not really melodic and many of it’s instruments feature only a high, medium and low pitch so it’s ideal for beginner buglers!

In this piece we are going to use our High, Medium and low pitches-higher C, G and lower C, to create a Samba for pBugles. Of course this can work on any Bb brass instrument playing High Medium or Low so you could invite any Bb brass player to join in! We can achieve complex sounding patterns of notes by layering relatively simple patterns over each other. We’ve taken four patterns, each from a samba instrument and used them on the pBugle. Each rhythm can be practiced by clapping, singing, buzzing or playing...or any combination!

To help with the rhythms we’ve placed words beneath which when said in time help to learn each pattern. There is a link for each pattern that takes you to sound files of the patterns clapped, spoken,sung and played as well.

Each video features Anthony singing, clapping and playing a pattern and the “pBugle Samba” video shows all the parts played together!

Combine these patterns in lots of different ways to create your own samba! “Tea, coffee” Surdo bass pattern

This is the heart beat of our Samba and needs to be steady and reliable! I suppose this a Samba bass line!

4 &4 œ œ œ œ Tea coœ - ffœee Tea coœ - feeœ Tea coœ - ffœee Tea coœ - feeœ

& œ œ œ œ Tea coœ - ffœee Tea coœ - feeœ Tea coœ - ffœee Tea coœ - feeœ

Sing, clap and play

12 Learn to play the pBugle “We Love to Samba” Agogo pattern

This as close as samba get to having a tune or melody...it’s geat to sing and great to play!

4 &4 œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ This is cool we love to Sam- ba

& œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ This is cool we love to Sam- ba

Sing, clap and play Anthony plays all the parts

Learn to play the pBugle 13 “Potato”...Tamborim pattern

Named after one of South America’s most famous gifts to the world, edgy and nervous this pattern works great on high pitches and really adds excitement!

4 &4 œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ po - ta - to po - ta - to po - ta - to po - ta - to

& œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ po - ta - to po - ta - to po - ta - to po - ta - to

Sing, clap and play

14 Learn to play the pBugle “Lemonade” Guiro pattern

Just like a tree frog in the Brazilian jungle this pattern repeats and repeats until it’s under your skin!

4 & 4 ™ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ le mon ade lem on ade lem on ade lem on ade

& œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ le mon ade lem on ade lem on ade lem on ade

& œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ ™ le mon ade lem on ade lem on ade lem on ade

Sing, clap and play

Learn to play the pBugle 15 7. Glossary

Track: A piece of recorded music

Stabs: Notes that are short and loud, often used as musical punctuation.

Structure: The overall shape of a piece of music, often includes a description of the separate sections.

Sections: A part of a piece of music that has the same use or sound.

Grow: Often in popular music the brass players shape long notes by getting louder- growing the note!

Beats: The pulse of the music but also a term for a pattern of supporting music played by the rhythm section or created in a sample or on decks.

Bars: The pulse in beats is organised into bars to make it easier to know where you are in music and where the important notes lie. There are often four beats in a bar.

Bass: Both the name of a stringed instrument that plays low notes (double bass or electric bass) and the name of the part of the music that uses the lowest notes.

Drums: Often people say the drums when they refer to the drum set or kit.

Electric piano: First made popular in the 60’s and 70’s and now having a revival an, electric (not electronic) piano makes it’s sound by hammers hitting small metal bars which are amplified...a very famous electric piano is the Fender Rhodes.

Congas: Usually used in pairs these are tall, slim drums, one high pitch , one low. Played with the hands.

Pitch: How high or low a note is.

Dynamics: How loud or quiet a note is.

Crescendo: The Italian musical term for “getting louder”.

Diminuendo: The Italian musical term for “getting quieter”.

Intro: Short for “introduction” a term for a short piece of music at the beginning of a piece.

Outro: A new word that means the opposite of “intro”. A short piece of music to end a piece.

Head: A jazz name for a melody or tune.

12 bar: A shorter way of saying “12 bar blues”

MC: In Hip-hop the person rapping.

DJ: In hip-hop the person playing decks (also know as turntablism) and creating the beats.

Melody: The tune, this could be a song or played by an instrument.

Lick or Riff:A short repeated piece of music, often used as a backing figure.

Rhythm section: Usually a piano, bass, guitar and drums but couldbe any combination of these.

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